Pitlochry Station

Pitlochry Station

A Grade A building complex rebuilt circa 1890, comprising a symmetrical main station building, down platform building, footbridge, fountain, and signal box.

Main Station Building

Single storey with five bays arranged in a U-plan with lower end wings and two platforms served by a through station. The structure is built of narrow snecked blocks with ashlar dressings, partial base and eaves courses, hoodmoulds, crowsteps and stone finials with chamfered arrises. Stone transoms and mullions throughout. Small pane glazing in timber windows. The roof is slated with decorative terracotta ridge tiles. Coped ashlar stacks with some cans are present.

The symmetrical platform elevation (facing southwest) features recessed central bays behind an altered timber awning supported on four octagonal cast-iron columns with swept heads. The centre bay contains an opening formerly used for a bookstall, with a hoodmoulded tablet in a rose-finalled gablehead above. Two bays to the left hold four-light transomed windows with a door beyond; to the right of centre is a broad opening for timetables, a four-light transomed window, and a further door to the outer right.

Projecting outer bays flank the centre. The left bay has triangular crowsteps and incorporates transomed lights flanking a small round-headed fountain with a circular setting for a clock beneath a hoodmould. A further hoodmoulded roundel with a thistle finial sits in the gablehead. A single transomed window and door occupy the returns. The right bay features a four-light transomed canted window with hoodmould and polygonal stone roof; a cruciform gunloop appears in a sickle moon-finalled gablehead, with a single transomed window and door on the returns.

The lower outer wing to the right has a crowstepped pediment over a central door, with a single window to the outer left and two bipartite windows to the right. A crowstepped gable crowns the right return behind a screen wall. The similar wing to the left has a bipartite window to the right, a door to the left and a further window beyond. Its left return features a full-height shouldered chimney breast with a diamond-aligned stack and an additional window.

The northeast elevation (facing Station Road) comprises six bays. A projecting crowstepped porch sits right of centre with a window, a door on the right return, and a small bipartite window on the left return. The penultimate bay to the right contains a taller, set-back triangular crowstepped gable with a hoodmoulded, raised centre transomed tripartite window, a gunloop, and paired rounded gablehead stacks; a further window occupies the right return. Three transomed windows appear in the bay left of centre, and a gabled bay beyond matching the right outer bay but with a cruciform gunloop and star finial. The lower outer bays each contain two small bipartite windows; that to the right has paired diamond-aligned ridge stacks.

Down Platform Building

A single storey wooden weatherboarded structure with a central block flanked by set-back wings. The central block features a double-doored entrance with fanlight and sidelights, flanked by three-light transomed and mullioned windows with transomed single lights to each return. Each wing has a further three-light transomed window and a single light to the outer returns. Windows throughout have segmental arches. A porch projects from the outer right. The roof is slated and piended with a bell-cast form, decorated with terracotta ridge tiles and finials. Red brick ridge stacks with moulded stone coping and short ridged cans flank each wing.

Footbridge and Fountain

A standard Highland Railway lattice girder and cast-iron footbridge spans the tracks. A cast-iron drinking fountain stands on the up platform, comprising a circular dish on a square pedestal with heron and flower ornament, and fitted with a cast-iron cup attached by chain.

Signal Box

Located north of the station, the signal box dates to 1911 and is a gabled Highland Railway structure of board and cover-strip construction with a slated roof and ball finials. Early 21st century extensions extend to the rear and porch entrance.